As part of the Kennedy Dynasty, it’s no surprise that Caroline Kennedy has an interest in American government and politics. An author and attorney, Kennedy also served as a United States Ambassador…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Los Angeles for 2022. The city, one of the most well-known and second largest in the U.S., was at the forefront of women’s rights. In 1884, the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Los Angeles was founded and sparked a drive for change that spread across the country…
Anita Hill motivated a generation of women to enter politics when she testified in televised hearings against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment in 1991. The following year, a historic number of female politicians were elected to Congress…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Los Angeles for 2022. The city, one of the most well-known and second largest in the U.S., was at the forefront of women’s rights. In 1884, the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Los Angeles was founded and sparked a drive for change that spread across the country…
The name Sigourney is of French origin and can be translated as “the conqueror” or “daring king or queen,” and Susan Alexandra “Sigourney” Weaver has been just that with a film career spanning more than 50 years…
Described as “a whip-smart, button-cute leftie” by Time magazine, Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay host of a major prime-time program in the United States. She has received multiple Emmy Awards for her broadcasting work and received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her audiobook Blowout last year…
Laurene Powell Jobs is an American billionaire, philanthropist, and the widow of Steve Jobs, the Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Apple. She is the Founder and Executive of Emerson Collective, an organization that advocates for policies in support of education and immigration reform, environmental conservation, and social justice…
Chelsea Clinton was given the Secret Service codename “Energy” when she moved with her parents into the White House, and her work as a writer and global health advocate shows she has lived up to the moniker…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco for 2022. In the last century, countless notable women have been leaders of innovation and creativity in the Bay Area. They have inspired the minds and talents of today’s generation through a wide variety of industries. Women like Dorothy Arzner, who is widely known for rising to prominence within the film industry during a time when men dominated the field…
Sandra Day O’Connor made history when she was sworn in as the first female Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States on September 25, 1981. O’Connor garnered considerable political and public support and, in the year following her unanimous confirmation, she received more than 60,000 letters from the public, a record among Supreme Court justices…
